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Topic: Future of website |
roger.pape
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Forum: Problem reports and maintenance Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:57 am Subject: Future of website |
People may have noticed that there is a lack of new information on this website recently. It's not that I have grown tired of this or have nothing new to say. A year and a half ago I suddenly lost m ... |
Topic: Purpose of the forum |
roger.pape
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Forum: German Roots Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:18 am Subject: Purpose of the forum |
This forum was started as a place to consolidate information/pictures about German localities from which the early settlers of Concordia came. Almost all of them came from the lowlands of north Germ ... |
Topic: Eclipse Day |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:14 pm Subject: Eclipse Day |
The excitement and frenzy of the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 quickly disappeared after that day. However, for the record, it should be noted that the area around Concordia was under the direct ... |
Topic: Virus attack |
roger.pape
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Forum: Problem reports and maintenance Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:46 am Subject: Virus attack |
Note this applies only to registered members of the message board who log-in in order to post a message. Persons who simply view the board are not affected.
When logging into the message board one ... |
Topic: Rehkop/Peterson Collection of Glass Plate Negatives |
roger.pape
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Forum: General chat Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:01 am Subject: Rehkop/Peterson Collection of Glass Plate Negatives |
A large collection of glass plate negatives from the Algert T. Peterson and Leonard D. Rehkop photographic studios in Higginsville and Concordia, MO had been preserved and were donated to the State Hi ... |
Topic: Peters/Niermann, Wilk, Wukasch Connection |
roger.pape
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Forum: St. Paul's Memories Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 8:23 pm Subject: Peters/Niermann, Wilk, Wukasch Connection |
While researching the family of Rudolph Peters, a teacher at Davis School in the 1890s, I ran across an unusual convergence of the families of three teachers who taught at St. Paul's Elementary School ... |
Topic: 125th Anniversary Booklet |
roger.pape
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Forum: St. Paul's Memories Posted: Mon May 15, 2017 3:56 pm Subject: 125th Anniversary Booklet |
A booklet published in 1965 on the 125th anniversary of St. Paul's Church was scanned and uploaded to this website. Much of the history in this booklet can also be found in the sesquicentennial book ... |
Topic: Concordia's First (and only?) Auto Show |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 3:49 pm Subject: Missouri's Muddy Roads |
Early motorist in the 1910s had to contend with notoriously muddy roads. Several pictures below illustrate road conditions in the rainy seasons. Missouri had a particularly bad reputation. People w ... |
Topic: World War I Rally in Concordia |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:07 pm Subject: World War I Rally in Concordia |
For the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I, there have been numerous articles in newspapers, books, and on TV about the “Great War” (to end all wars). Various activities we ... |
Topic: SPC Cadet Corps |
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Forum: St. Paul's College/High School Memories Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:47 am Subject: SPC Cadet Corps |
As an expression of patriotism during WWI, St. Paul's College formed a Cadet Corps with compulsory military training. (An equivalent of ROTC.) An account of this activity was described by Rev. F. A. ... |
Topic: St. Paul’s College Centennial History |
roger.pape
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Forum: St. Paul's College/High School Memories Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 10:00 am Subject: St. Paul’s College Centennial History |
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading [url=http://www.concordia-memories.org/files/SPCCentennial.pdf]"Praise for the Past…Faith for the Future, A centennial history of St. Paul’s College in Concordia ... |
Topic: Sanborn Insurance map overlays |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:11 am Subject: What's there now? |
Have you seen an old building in the Sanborn maps and are wondering what is located there now? The Street View mode in Google maps is a convenient way to check this. The user interface for Street Vi ... |
Topic: Early photo of Concordia? |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:26 am Subject: Early photo of Concordia? |
The early photo of Concordia shown below has always been puzzling to me. Has anyone tried to identify the contents of that photo? It appeared in a Concordian article which provided some information ... |
Topic: Kathryn Kuhlman's Affiliation |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:59 am Subject: Kuhlman Tributes |
As noted by Robert Frizzell, author of Independent Immigrants, it is ironic that in a community whose population through the years was so dominantly Lutheran, the only person "of national recogni ... |
Topic: Kathryn Kuhlman's Affiliation |
roger.pape
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Forum: Concordia Memories Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:17 am Subject: Kathryn Kuhlman's Affiliation |
Was Kathryn Kuhlman Methodist or Baptist?
There is a website at [url=http://yourlifeoffreedom.blogspot.com/p/mummy-kathryn-kuhlman-memorial-page.html]MUMMY KATHRYN KUHLMAN MEMORIAL PAGE which inclu ... |
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